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revolution. >> we are at freedomfest in los angeles we want to introduce you to the book whether day liberty of gospel approach and conner is the author. what is the premise? >> not something use the with harry reid dormant romney or prominent mormons my argument is the scriptures and the teachings support a more libertarian framework especially they think libertarians are marijuana smoking atheist sori dispel what liberty is if libertarian as some and provide resources why to show the war meant faith supports that point* of view. >>host: where did mortgage come from? >> profit it is of book of a the seven scriptures apart from the bible. more men was a profit to combined the profit we call ourselves a latter-day saints good collectively known as mormons. >>host: they are overwhelmingly re
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Sep 30, 2012
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Sep 30, 2012


defense attorney, stood on a downtown los angeles sidewalk and he watched his chief investigator seized by the police caught in the act of bribing a juror. a few weeks later, darrow was indicted on two counts of bribery, and burt franklin, the investigator, agreed to testify against them. he swore that darrow had ordered him to pay $4000 to jurors who agreed to vote not guilty. and darrow was at that time at the height of the same one of america's foremost trial lawyers, political leaders and populist champions, and his careened staggered off track there in southern california. caught up by shame he left his wife one reunite for the apartment of his mistress. with a revolver in one pocket and a whiskey barrel -- whiskey bottle in the other, he sat down and vowed to kill them so. she brought out two glasses. they sat at a wooden table underneath one of those swinging bare lightbulbs. and fortunately for us she talked him out of it. he went on to create an american architect, lawyer for the little guy, advocate for the common folk. poking his thumbs, regarding the jury from beneath that c
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Sep 10, 2012
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Sep 10, 2012


-store. after a got out of the navy i was a prosecutor in los angeles, standard cases, drug cases, didn't think about it much, ended up having the unit fraud against the government fha and va that sort of thing. after that in the private practice of law and then appointed to the bench so i was on the bench for 25 years as a judge and now i am retired and running as you say for office. >> what cord were you a judge? >> a court in orange county california over 25 years pretty much did everything. as a part of that, you know, low level drug offenders in the system for no good purpose eventually it didn't take long i saw what we're doing isn't working. the tougher we are on the drug crime the softer br with prosecution of everything else so the robbers, rapists, murderers would be able to stay and get a lot less accountability because we're spending peace efforts on the prosecution of the nonviolent drug offenses. >> what was your attitude towards the julca law breakers against? >> you have to uphold all and i raised my hand to protect and defend the constitution as well as the state will but that
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Sep 9, 2012
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Sep 9, 2012


. after i got out of the navy as a federal prosecutor in los angeles, u.s. attorney's office prosecuted standard cases, bank robberies, drug cases. ended up having a unit prosecuting across the government fha, va, that sort of thing. after that was in the private practice of litigation for five years and appointed to the bench. i was on the bench for 25 years as a judge and now i'm retired and running, as you say, for office. >> host: what court really judge? >> guest: orange county, california for the state court over 25 years pretty much did everything. as a part of that, churning low-level drug offenders for no good purpose and eventually didn't take too long. i saw what were doing simply isn't working here the tougher weekend on drug crime, the softer weekend with regard to prosecution and everything else. robbers, reapers, murderous brutal to escape and get less accountability because we spend all the on prosecution of nonviolent drug offenses. just as a word. >> host: what was your attitude towards drug lawbreakers i guess? >> guest: you have to uphold the laws and i raised my han
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Sep 4, 2012
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Sep 4, 2012


in los angeles because the history isn't that long, and it's not all that a parent. we have paved over a lot of the history. so i decided that i was going to do something, and that was to walk between the two los angeles missions. dressed as a spanish writer. i wanted to do something that was civilian. i wanted to do something that would ambush history, these guys that are met, do something we dress up and you go out in public and you make people go like what? what's that guy doing? and look and do a double take and then wonder. then you can say i in you, or this is what was happening right here 200 years ago. the first order of business was to map my root. spanish friars were down a trial between emissions and called it el camino riau, or the kings highway. i would've loved to have followed in the footsteps but, unfortunately, today in many parts of the 10 lane 101 freeway. singh has walking on the one that would result in certain death i did what any educated man of the day would do. i let mapquest route my journey. monday i open my laptop, and the two addresses and traced the 26-poi
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Sep 2, 2012
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Sep 2, 2012


gradual. it started with the college in los angeles he attended for his freshman and sophomore years and there are few people dare, an african student at one of the african-americans and some others who started calling him barack when they found out that was his name and like so many college students, they start to really go back and find their identity and college and that is what he was searching for it. but many of the occidental classmates called him very. even when he got to new york, columbia, there were people who called in dairy and some barack. >> host: why did he choose accidental artist who the am i transferred to columbia? >> guest: teachers accidental because he got a partial scholarship and he knew a lot of people going there. the way he tells the story there were some girl from brooklyn who he met in honolulu before that in that area and said he got attracted to go for that reason. occidental was like putting a the next stop. it was comfortable, very beautiful, bucolic, small contained, you eat. and you know, california sunshine was just like to put a hollow sunshine.
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? >> the short answer is they do and they don't. i know the article yore talking about. "the los angeles times" had a spread called new desert emea. they were writing about me and the friends i was telling you at the very beginning. we were the unwitting. we had no idea. all we knew when we arrived in the desert of a set his chief abu are creative types that were fleeing justification in the city. and we wind up in the desert. because of all the ways we've imagine the desert also. and the boom years are starting to pick up in capitalist looking for places to go when capital is following god is and does is by what? i don't mean to tell you all in san francisco. it follows the typical representation. i think i mentioned a little bit ago the unholy alliance and realistic expectation. the effect of this is to distort a skewer and a violent way, native populations who have been there for a long time and ultimately displace them. it's a representational displacement and it's a physical, literal displacement. ultimately, my crew, we've are low rents, but after we arrived, the real money poured in. an
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Sep 3, 2012
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Sep 3, 2012


, california, southeast of downtown los angeles. they had three children. on the right is their youngest child, that's eunice. she was about 16 or 17 in this photograph. on the other end, on the left is mary, actually who then became mary manbo, that's on the left is the photographer's wife, mary manbo. and then in front of his father-in-law is his grandson, bill and mary's son billy. also named bill, but he was called billy in the family. billy came along in early 1940. this is probably shot sometime in 1943, so he's about 3 years old there. he's clutching his little toy airplane. mary went to the frank wiggins trade school as well, that's where she met bill. she was studying to become a seam stress. she became a seam stress, she did costume design among other jobs. then there was a third child, sammy, a boy. by 1931 sammy, who's not pictured in this photograph, but you'll meet hill later, sammy was at cal, at uc berkeley in the rotc program in 1941. and eunice, as i say, was in high school. now, the father-in-law had done some accounting work for a japanese-language school, and as a conseque
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Sep 3, 2012
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Sep 3, 2012


, southeast of downtown los angeles. the pius had three children feared on the right is their youngest child, eunice, with 16 or 17 in this photograph. on the other end of the left is mary who actually then became merry manbo. it is on the left the photographer's wife. and in front of jim as james grandmother, also named bill, but was called billy in the family. billy came along and early 1840s. probably shot sometime in 1943, said he is about three years old there clutching his little toy airplane. mary went to the frank wickens street school as well. that is where she met bill. she was studying to become a seamstress. she costume design for theater come amiss among other jobs. then there was a third child, fannie, a boy. by 1941, sammy who is not pictured in this photograph that you meet him later was at you see berkeley and the rotc program in 1941 and units as they say was in high school. give them some accounting work for a japanese language school as a consequence of doing that accounting work, dean affiliated with the jet and a school, he was arrested in march 1942, several months aft
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Sep 8, 2012


't. the "los angeles times" had a spread called in new desert bohemia. they're writing about me. we had no idea. all we knew is that it was cheap we were creative types fleeing the justification of the city and the boom years start to pick up and capital looks for places to go. from sample of ciskei the need to tell you but i mentioned to with real-estate speculation, the effect is due to store and obscure native populations it is representational and physical. we were low rent but after we arrived in the real money came them. the art in america artist or writer to then joni mitchell then bob dylan and it was a tornado of speculation driving up the rent and then the old families to go south and cash in. an incredibly destabilizing force. so their arguments to be made. then isn't it like killing in self? but it was a dying town then they arrived in saved it was not ultimately a solution i would argue but thank you for your question. >> how would you envision northern new mexico if not based on revenue? let say it was the free hand bomb factory instead of tourism. what would it be like in your vi
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Sep 4, 2012


was a psychiatrist but he helped to establish what was called the free peoples medical clinic in los angeles that was located in central athens. and was founded in 1969, december 1969. he was at the time, i think he was a resident, psychiatry resident at ucla, and so he would help the panthers to start the clinic and he would actually going to be involved with other panther activities over the course of his career. there was also a very interesting physician who never joined the party named small, he was huey newton's personal physician. he was the personal physician of angela davis when she was in jail. he also saw george jackson. he was involved in the party, never joined the party. this was at a time when he was living in oakland and was an intern at oakland's highland hospital. he helped the party to sort a strategize rent getting the sickle cell anemia program organize, and the southwest, he helped the party. you'd go around the chapters educating the rank-and-file members of the party about sickle cell anemia. >> host: so, professor nelson, why are you writing about this now? is a beca
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Sep 16, 2012
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Sep 16, 2012


to realize the south is more integrated than the coast cities. not meant this or mobile but los angeles, new york. and possible they will cry. for the past decade african americans have been moving south a reverse of the great migration when large parts of the population moves north but now blacks are coming back. impossible. don't they know it is full of red necks in reese's? the more important to the better place to raise kids. kids don't learn to say yes. . . -- yes ma'am or no sir. for this mason-dixon line still shows up on maps but it is better to be on the south side. it is the fastest growing region up 14%. people moving to texas 1,000 per day. b&w opens facilities in south carolina and atlantic and churches is the hub of international media and commerce. in his blighted neighborhood he hates the south like east berlin hated west berlin. they haven of entrepreneurialism have always outperformed the statist neighbors south korea over north korea. hong kong and taiwan. this is a universal truth the south of fills the same role today with the prosperity exposed the impoverished lies and
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Sep 29, 2012
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Sep 29, 2012


. rao the city to the other radio in los angeles. like to point out that we're all graduates of the university of michigan law school. different years. larry is older than i am. and is a little bit younger, but the three of us all graduated from law school. now one of us has been invited back to campus to speak. go figure. three nationally syndicated talk show hosts with a lot of audience and none of us have been invited back. every five years i invited back to harvard to be the person that this town. that the chief of staff and director of the peace corps and communications director. duval patrick is the governor of massachusetts. grover norquist. it's like groundhog day every side -- every five years before us identify our class. we have the only two conservatives the gun and of harvard. the rest of us just throw things at us. it's always amusing commute the series is very good. come back in november bummer doing when it -- william henry harrison. it's a very short program. you don't want to miss that one. and such a presidential merit i visited his tomb. his tomb is in a s
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Sep 2, 2012
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up farming in the mid-1920s in norwalk, california on southeast of downtown los angeles. the pilot had three children, on the right is their youngest child, that is eunice. she was about 16 or 17 in this photograph. on the other end, the left is mary. who actually became mary manbo. then we have the little grandson, bill and mary is the son billy. billy came along in early 1940. this was probably shot in sumner around 1943. he is about three years old where he is clutching his toy airplane. mary went to the frank wiggins trade school as well. that is where she met bill. she was studying to become a seamstress. she became a seamstress and that costume design for theater companies among other jobs. then there was a third child, sammy, a boy. by 1941, sammy, who is not pictured in this photograph, but you will meet him later -- he was at uc berkeley in the our oct program in 1941. eunice was in high school at the time. jinzo had done some accounting work for a japanese language school. as a consequence of doing that, doing that accounting work and being affiliated with the japanese sc
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Sep 1, 2012
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's in norwalk california southeast of downtown los angeles. the. [indiscernible] had three children. on the ride is their youngest child, that's eunice. she was about 16 or 17 in this photograph. on the other in this very. that on the left as the photographers wife. and then in french is the little grandson bill and mary some. he was called billy and the family. billy came along in the early 1940. this is probably shot sometime in 1943, so he is about three years of there. his little toy airplane. mary went to the franco against trade school where she met bill pier is studying to become a seamstress. became a seamstress. she did custom designed for theater companies among other jobs. there was a third child, boy by 1941, the picture in this photograph, but you will meet him later. that uc berkeley in the rotc program in 1941. now, the and some accounting work for a japanese language school. and as a consequence of doing that accounting work the affiliated with the japanese school, he was arrested in march of 1942 after -- several months after pearl harbor. he was moved up federal ju
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. >> well, we are west of the west here. like you're saying, los angeles is and isn't the last. so you know, talking about this in l.a. is different than talking about in new mexico are reading this and in santa fe, reading before her very well-heeled audience that has its neighbors right next-door. these are the neighbors next door. so they had surveillance to read this. i think the west dallas and cancer as a canvas upon which the country can look at itself. what i'm trying to argue here is the most recent boom and bust and the terrible price that was paid and are still paying was at its most radical and violent in the last. phoenix, san bernardino, denver. but have been there in terms of the
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it was clear this was a moment. the los angeles times blog published frame by frame sequence of photographs beneath the headlines, marco rubio to the rescue. they should nancy and mark a smiling at each other, and the nancy happily looking into the audience, then starting a slow motion as the sender reaches over to pat her hand. then rubio saving a. the former first lady's anxiety at that second written on her face as she grimaces and closes her eyes. conservative bloggers and their leaders have been reliably lauded to her about all things revealed during his quick descent into the republican party, praised him. hero, marco rubio, saves a falling nancy reagan. that happened a couple of weeks before simon & schuster called me, and i can member watching it on television that night. it was on the evening news or i think -- on the evening news. i think sometimes political careers are aided by the center piece of timing. and being there when this icon of the conservative movement happened to trip with the cameras rolling, it's just another example of how marco rubio has been in the right place a
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going on in los angeles. you could have been in a million places. you're here. i find that personally fulfills. and fulfilling totally these are important matters. thanks for all of that. [applause] a couple of personal notes the book and how it came about. , you know, i had been engaged in kind of questions about my own heritage, i had two grandfathers, one on each side that were victims of the -- survivors their families were victims, obviously. and the only thing -- about why the government and all the people recruit would target every day people. my family were not elite, they were not even really educate there, they were farmers. why would they be targeted? and so it started to lead to these questions about why would they be hated so badly people would want to try to kill them? that was coupled with other questions that when i put them together lead me down the path of mass media and one other incident was do you remember in the 1990s when there was an emergence of a new kind of talk radio we hadn't really heard before up until the 1990's we had strayed ahead public affairs on te
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passively because we believe we can enter the club. it is agreed that keeps us silent. souci and los angeles. good afternoon. >> i want to thank you for your thoughts in the book. they are very deep and they really open many of our minds to the important concept and you try at least in the observation for a lot of deep thought and objective reality. i was troubled however in the area when you talk about the middle east because you talk about your history in terms of knowing arabic by riss thundering also if you have an equal knowledge of hebrew and the people on that side. >> religion jerusalem for two years. i don't speak hebrew. there was a conscious decision because when i worked in a leased to be working in syria or baghdad and to speak arabic and have any hebrew creed into your arabic could land you in prison although i have to say they eventually in both iraq and iran was thrown in prison any way or jail for brief periods of time. i have great admiration and affection for israel, and i think that the parameters of the the date about the middle east and about the israeli palestinian con
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the u.s. military leave a rock. that piece appeared on the op-ed page of the los angeles times and in a longer version. and then it began wandering the media world. one of its stops curiously enough was the military newspaper stars and stripes. the military man came this e-mail response. read your article. when was the last time you visited there. a critique. fifty will chosen words, so much more effective than the usual long angry men as i get. it interested me. after all, as i've wrote back i was then a 65 year-old guy who had never been anywhere near and undoubtedly never would be. i have to assume that my e-mailing has spent time there possibly more than once and disagreed with my assessments. first ten experience is not to be taken lightly. what do i know? only the reporting i have been able to read from thousands of miles away or analysis found on the blocks of experts. on the other hand, even from thousands of miles away i was one of many who could see enough by early 2003 to go into the streets in demonstrate against an onrushing disaster of an invasion that a lot of pe
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written for the new yorker, the "wall street journal", the los angeles times, newsweek, and the new york post. a member of the council on foreign relations, she has lectured at yale university, columbia and mit. she holds two master's degrees and a doctorate from columbia university. so we have to our, you dr. monica. in a recent interview with news maxed on her new book "what the (bleep) just happened", the happy warrior astride to the great american comeback. monica said, and michael, president obama is redistributing everything that makes america great, not just, but also our military power, our cultural appeal, our borders, and our very exceptional some. monica is one of the most brilliant and savvy young women of our dinner. most importantly, with all her many achievements monica crowley is a great american patriarch. it's my pleasure to introduce to all of you this monica crowley. [applause] >> with an introduction. i think i have to take you with me everywhere i go. thank you very much. that was very kind and very generous of you. thank you so much for hosting tonight. it means th
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jean edward smith, "eisenhower in war and peace" and the next call comes from mike in los angeles. hi i. >> caller: my question is for david. your father was an amazing president, one of the greatest presidents ever to actually serve over our country. but it seems that the republican party has fallen short in recent years. i need looking at the last republican president and his eight year demonstration, looking at where the republican convention is a prime example of the problems that the republican party is having and the current events happening today. inside the republican party you have the tea party movement which is part me for saying, a joke in itself but where how do you think your rant but it would have viewed the republican party and what would his advice be to republican leaders today? >> both isenhour's on the evolution of the gop and also mr. smith who has interesting views on this. my view of it is to pose that question and the very interesting what what-if, to pose that question is like asking how franken roosevelt would have you the democratic party in the jimmy carter e
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, remember the day we arrived at at the southern pacific station here in los angeles? and papa and mama kissed the ground flax look, the american film institute has given me its life achievement award. and for that i am thinking them and all my friends who have come here. but for america, just for living here, i kissed the ground. thank you very much. [applause] >> now lets face it, if you are liberal you probably did not get a chill like we did over frank capra's immortal words in that speech. let's face it i don't think we are in any danger witnessing a typical liberal offering to kiss the ground of the united states of america any time soon. and finally, e pluribus unum, from the one many. the great seal got everything the liberals despise right up there front and center. in the first place you have your eagle holding euros. what good can those arrows serve besides celebrating the bloodlust of liberals the get america? it doesn't matter to them in the root eagles right talent he's clutching the olive branch of peace they can appoint the teddy roosevelt made 150 years later with the w
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not to sue u.s. military leave iraq. that appeared on the op-ed page of the "los angeles times" and then began wandering the media world. one of its stops, curiously enough was the military newspaper, stars and stripes. this e-mail respons read your article in stars and stripes. when was the last time you visited iraq? a critique and 15 well-chosen world. his point, i was then a 65-year-old guy who had never been anywhere near iraq and undoubtably never would have. possibly more than once and disagreed with my assessment. this is not to be taken lightly. what, after all, do i know about iraq? only the reporting i've been able to read. the analysis found lots of experts, on the other hand, even from thousands of miles away, i was one of many who could see enough by early 2003 to go into the streets and demonstrate against an onrushing disaster that a lot of people theoretically are far more as a cakewalk or the new century. it is true that i have never strolled down a street in baghdad. and that is a deficit if you want to write about the american experience in iraq. it's also t
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had in store for me? after i got out of the navy, i was a federal prosecutor in los angeles, u.s. attorney's office, prosecuted the standard cases, bank robberies, drug cases, doesn't really think about it much. ended up heading a unit prosecuting frauds against the government, fha, va, that sort of thing. after that was in the private practice of law, business litigation for five years and then was appointed to the bench, so i was on the bench for 25 years as a judge, and now i've retired and i'm running, as you say, for office. well, what court were you a judge at? >> guest: the superior court in orange county, california. it's the state court and over 25 years pretty much did everything. and as a part of that, you know, churning, low-level drug offenders through the system for no good purpose and eventually, in fact, it didn't take too long, i saw what we're doing simply isn't working. the tougher we get on drug crime, the softer we get with regard to prosecution of everything else. so robbers, rapers, byrderers were getting a lot less accountability because we're spending a
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of cafta had to run what they call the cotler. it's highly one-to-one to the big market bay area and los angeles. we're only talking about legitimate people. not people but black marketeers going to the triple the price they can get in missouri and south government. this is people keeping it in state following state law. the law enforcement resources are still fighting the drug war on the gravy train now that it's sort of like, you've got 100,000 wildebeests crossing the river but only 20 the police are going to get eaten, but you don't want to be one of them. that's what it is like for a cannabis farmer trying to get medicine to patients in california. the moment early my research i was going to do a speaking event from a previous book, left mendocino county, i have a vegetable oil powered truck so some argued it was the effervescence given accounts. i don't know why they would've had the munchies, but the moment i crossed into sonoma county, underneath a bill road, anheuser-busch knows what america's number one cash crop is, they are saying you can use cannabis. this is what the budwei
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from the mike in los angeles. hi, mike. >> caller: hello. my question's for david. um, your father was an amazing president, one of the greatest republican presidents ever to actually serve over our country. um, but it seems that the republican party has fell short in recent years. i mean, look at the last republican president and his eight-year administration, look at where the republicans convention is a primary example of the problems that the republican party is having in current events happening today. i mean, you have different sects inside the republican party. i mean, you have the tea party movement which is, pardon me for saying, seems like a joke in itself. but what do you think your grandfather would have viewed the republican party, and what would his advice be to republican leaders in today's society? >> host: we'll get an answer from both eisenhowers on the evolution of the gop. >> guest: and also mr. smith who has very interesting views on this. my view of it is ha to pose -- that to pose that question, and it is a very interesting what if, it's like asking how frank
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' as a reading specialist, and my undergraduate is los angeles arts. i became a curriculum specialist or supervisor of teachers for the vast part of the career. i have a vast perspective on what needs to be done in the educational system, and i just think we're not -- we keep trying to put band-aids on what the problems are in the country, and i think we just need to start from scratch with a long term plan. >> host: we appreciate it. tom, in your column in the new york city times, your e-mail is at the end of the column? >> guest: yes, uh-huh. >> host: if shemented to contact you, she can go to the new york times website? >> guest: yes, absolutely. >> host: what are we doing right and wrong? >> guest: the book is about education, what you need to know to be prepared for globalization and the i.t. revolution are merging. there's two challenges. bring the bottom to the average so much faster. that's the three reading, writing, and arrhythmia tick. that's where the three c's, tony wagner from harvard calls creativity, collaboration, and communication. we have a dual educational challeng

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